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Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour .


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Quote Left To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, ... Quote Right
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Quote Left The end is the beginning and yet you go on Quote Right
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Quote Left The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Quote Right
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Quote Left No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. Quote Right
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Quote Left To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. Quote Right
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Book: Shattered Sighs